Hate Is a Virus
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They can't no longer depend on the police to be to protect us Like they say they're gonna do So this is what you get And no it's not gonna end today, I can't tell you it's gonna end tomorrow I don't know when it's gonna end But it's for y'all to start We not the one that's killing us, Y'all killing us We can't make a change if y'all don't change Where do I even begin? How do you find the resolve from within? To carry on when you feel like your daily existence Is in question, threatened by the world you live in? I can't fathom, let alone imagine The feeling that your next breath could be your last one The anxiety, can't ever let your guard down As if living wasn't already hard now Same story, different name One more gone but nothing changes From the outside, we know this is horrible But for you, this has always been normal Desensitized to the violence, tired of crying Try to rise up, but even then you're silenced Murdered in cold blood by the police Another dead Black body in the streets Put the guns down, I'm scared, I'm scared If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a very serious problem And my theory is that white people have a very serious problem And they should start thinking about what they can do about it Where do I even begin? I have visions of Vincent Chin In 1982, a few days away from getting married Vincent was killed and eventually buried Two white men blamed him for losing their jobs In the auto industry, thinking he was Japanese Took a Louisville Slugger and cracked his skull open wide But served no jail time Now parallel this tragedy with Ahmaud Arbery's He was perceived as a suspect of burglary While out jogging, chased by two white men for minutes Cut him off with their truck, there's no exit Shoot first, ask questions last Three blasts, now Ahmaud is ash 74 days passed before an arrest was made So how can I believe that all lives matter the same You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children On some idealism which assure me exists in America which I have never seen Please, please I can't breathe Please man, please somebody help me Where do I even begin Can't say that you don't see our color of skin You could be Harvard educated, they'll still call the cops Just ask Christian Cooper if he could've been shot Like Breonna Taylor who was relaxing in her residence 20 rounds fired and now she's Heaven sent If you can express your outrage for Kaepernick Please address the knee to the neck That led to the death of George Floyd, the lack of respect For human life is why people feel the need to protest Look, I stand with you in solidarity But to be honest in this moment of clarity Until those who put the system in place Acknowledge the mistakes of their forefathers and say The sins of the past are just as prevalent to this day Then take action, none of this will go away I think America must see that riots do not develop out of thin air Certain conditions continue to exist in our society which must be condemned as vigorously as we condemn riots But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard And what is it that America has failed to hear It has failed to hear that the plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society Are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo Than about justice, equality, and humanity And so in a real sense our nation's summers of riots are caused by our nation's winters of delay And as long as America postpones justice We stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention
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